Grays River
- From mouth to Hwy. 4 Bridge opens to fishing for hatchery
steelhead beginning November 15. The mainstem from the Hwy. 4 Bridge
to the South Fork and the West Fork from the mouth to the hatchery intake/footbridge
will open to fishing for hatchery steelhead beginning December 15.
Elochoman
River - No information on angler success. The first 7 late
stock hatchery coho had returned to the salmon hatchery through November
1.
Cowlitz
River - Bank anglers near the barrier dam are mainly catching
coho while those near the trout hatchery are mainly catching steelhead.
Effort has dropped from the I-5 bridge downstream.
From Nov. 6 through
Dec. 31, a non-buoyant lure restriction and night closure will be in
effect on the section of the Cowlitz River between 100 feet and 400
feet downstream from the barrier dam below the hatchery.
During the past
week Tacoma Power and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
recovered 7,647 adult coho salmon, 1,160 coho jacks, 264 fall chinook
adults, six fall chinook jacks, 199 summer-run steelhead, eight winter-run
steelhead and 54 cutthroat trout at the Cowlitz Salmon Hatchery separator
during seven days of operations.
Tacoma Power and
WDFW employees released 4,992 coho adults and 576 coho jacks into Riffe
Lake at Mossyrock Park during the week. A total of 410 summer-run steelhead,
seven winter-run steelhead and 49 cutthroat trout were recycled to the
Barrier Dam and Massey Bar boat launches.
Tacoma Power employees
released 58 fall chinook adults, 11 coho adults, two coho jacks and
two cutthroat trout into the Tilton River at Gust Backstrom Park in
Morton. A total of 119 fall chinook adults, five jacks, 69 coho adults
and 11 coho jacks were released into Mayfield Lake at Ike Kinswa Park.
River flows at Mayfield
Dam are approximately 13,800 cubic feet per second on Monday, November
6 and may increase during the week. Water visibility is over 8 feet.
Lake Scanewa
(Cowlitz Falls Reservoir) - Boat anglers are catching some
coho. Tacoma Power employees transported 1,795 coho adults and 192 coho
jacks to the Cowlitz River at the Lake Scanewa Day Use Site during the
week. In addition, they released 385 coho adults and 97 jacks into the
upper Cowlitz River at Franklin Bridge in Packwood. WDFW transported
two sea-run cutthroat trout to the upper Cowlitz River basin.
Kalama River
-
Bank anglers are catching some coho with a lot of the fish being released
(mixture of hatchery and wild fish).
Lewis River
- Bank anglers near the salmon hatchery are catching some coho.
Klickitat
River - Coho are moving into the lower river. The few bank
anglers sampled averaged about 1.5 coho per rod while boat anglers averaged
a fish per rod.
Lower Columbia
below Bonneville Dam - Boat anglers in the Camas/Washougal
area were catching a hatchery coho per every 3 rods.
Bonneville
Pool - Boat anglers averaged a coho kept per every other rod.
